To the contrary, the tools are getting progressively worse. Show me one feature in Powerpoint or Keynote that is specifically designed to give me actionable feedback on how to improve my presentation.

I'm not arguing for or against visual design - yes, you're right nothing new there. What I'm trying to point out, as we start migrating our presentation tools to the web, is that we don't need to copy all the useless inheritance.

For now, and yes I'm the early technical adopter.. I'm willing to edit the HTML markup directly, heck I'll FTP the darn thing to your server, and will do other backflips.. all if you manage to give me good feedback on how to do a better presentation next time around.